Gold Aegis

Gold Aegis

Author: Stephen Pantoja

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-01-09

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1365605558

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The Heroes of the Heap continue to contend with the evil unleashed across the face of Tellus. The ancient barghest Old Shuck resumes his hunt for the magical shards of an artifact that can rid him of the silver curse. Ozark the warlock is obsessed with destroying his doppleganger while tasked by his infernal patron to recover a monster of legend. The elemental Klaia and the dark druids of Cul Grey march on Druidhenge as they spread the dreaded Blight. Former Bandit King Alexandro uses his considerable guile to reconstruct the Crossroads while his alter ego works to destroy it. Crullak, Alaurel, Omar, Skullgrin, Box and Mik find their destinies intertwined once more in order to either save Tellus or destroy it.


Ancient Greek Costume

Ancient Greek Costume

Author: Linda Jones Roccos

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2006-09-28

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0786427744

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Costume production distinguishes early civilization from the Paleolithic era as much as architectural production. Costume transcends boundaries, as it first unites and then divides mankind. The mode of dress differentiates friend from foe and peasant from prince. Changes in the appearance and types of garments through the ages are a significant indicator of social, economic and chronological changes. This annotated bibliography of 603 references, taken from monographs, dissertations, festschrifts, periodicals, encyclopedias and handbooks, is the most comprehensive research tool for the subject of ancient Greek costume. This subject is of increasing interest to scholars in many fields, including archaeology and anthropology, art and art history, classics, drama, history, ancient literature, even modern literature. The references in this bibliography range from the encyclopedia entry to the monograph, and show a variety of themes: women's dress, men's dress, foreign dress, accessories, jewelry, headdresses, theater dress, textile production and literary evidence.


Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages

Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages

Author: Jason Colavito

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-04-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0786479728

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The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia. From the Bronze Age to the Classical Age, from the medieval world to today, the Jason story has been told and retold with new stories, details and meanings. This book explores the epic history of a colorful myth and probes the most ancient origins of the quest for the Golden Fleece--a quest that takes us to the very dawn of Greek religion and its close relationship with Near Eastern peoples and cultures.


Monuments and Maidens

Monuments and Maidens

Author: Marina Warner

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 0520227336

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A brilliant examination of the allegorical uses of the female form to be found in the sculpture ornamenting public buildings as well as throughout the history of western art.


The Collector's Voice

The Collector's Voice

Author: Susan Pearce

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1351964135

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The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels. Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin


Αθηναιου Ναυκρατιτου Δειπνοσοφιστων

Αθηναιου Ναυκρατιτου Δειπνοσοφιστων

Author: Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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Athenaeus (AD ca. 170ca. 230), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, lived in Rome and wrote a historical work now lost. Of the fifteen books of his surviving Deipnosophists ('Sophists at Dinner'), the first two and parts of the third, eleventh, and fifteenth exist only in summary, the rest apparently complete. In it he pretends to tell a friend about a banquet at a scholar's house whither the learned guests brought extracts from poetry for recitation and discussion. Much of the matter however concerns the food provided and accessories. One learns about cooks, strange dishes, wines, menu cards, and countless other matters. Athenaeus was an antiquarian. The whole work, which mentions nearly eight hundred writers and two thousand five hundred writings, is a large treasury of information not only about table matters but also music, dances, games, and all sorts of literary subjects. And it abounds in quotations, mostly made direct by Athenaeus himself, from authors whose writings have not survived. The Loeb Classical Library edition of The Deipnosophists is in seven volumes. There is a comprehensive index in the final volume.


Images in Mind

Images in Mind

Author: Deborah Steiner

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780691094885

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In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.'' Deborah Tarn Steiner considers how Greek authors used images to ponder the relation of a copy to an original and of external appearance to inner reality. For these writers, a sculpture could straddle life and death, encode desire, or occasion reflection on their own act of producing a text. Many of the same sources also reveal how thinking about statues was reflected in the objects' everyday treatment. Viewing representations of gods and heroes as vessels hosting a living force, worshippers ritually washed, clothed, and fed them in order to elicit the numinous presence within. By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social--rather than purely aesthetic--study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists.


The Learned Banqueters: Books III.106e-V

The Learned Banqueters: Books III.106e-V

Author: Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780674996212

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A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.